2 Motives for visiting Ireland. 



not by the appreciation of others. In retiring 

 from the task of sedulously discharging my duty 

 in attending to the conduct of national con- 

 cerns, it is no small consolation to escape even 

 the imputation of having participated in the 

 corruptions of the times, and to feel conscious 

 of not having contributed to the adoption of 

 those measures, which for so many years have 

 inundated Europe with torrents of affliction and 

 oceans of blood. 



Unfortunate, and greatly to be pitied, is that 

 individual who takes, in the management of his 

 own affairs, so little interest as to make him feel 

 the weight of time, and to be indifferent to all 

 the passing events of life, excepting those in 

 which the senses are immediately engaged. 



The ardency, nay enthusiasm, with which my 

 mind has habitually pursued the objects of 

 its occupation, I shall never lament ; for 

 though it may have hurried me, on some occa- 

 sions, into unintentional error, it has enabled 

 me to follow the plough over the surface, or ex* 

 plore the hidden strata beneath it, with the same 

 zeal and constancy, with which I embarked in 

 politics, or pursued the sports of the field. 



'Vanity, that universal all-powerful stimulus, 



